Hacking for fun and profit

Hi, my name is Gustavo, and I am a Civilization junkie.

I have sad news for the computer industry: Firaxis and Sid Meier released Civilization IV yesterday and this time they added multiplayer capabilities 3D graphics and customization with Python scripts. What were they thinking? Sid Meier is some kind of video game drug lord, he is responsible of MILLIONS of man-hours wasted on endless cycles of the “JUST… ONE… MORE… TURN…” syndrome. This is WRONG. Here is my story:

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After a long time I completly revamped this place (again). I am using a new theme, a new feed, a new advertising company, new wordpress plugins and also I registered the site in some blog directories like Blogwise and Blogalaxia.

New Theme:

I am using a modified version of the identification bands (3 columns right sided flavour). theme I had removed almost all images from the css since they made the blog really slow to scroll.

New Feed

I suscribed to Feedburner, my new feed is feeds.feedburner.com/tabo. Feedburner has advantages both for both feed subscribers and publishers, like:

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NOTE: I posted an updated review about django, some of the shortcomings I point in this post are no longer there. Django gets better every day.

I have been into web development for years, and let me tell you, I never liked it too much. I’d rather be coding backends or things that just work in a server without human intervention. I find writing forms and validations in PHP (my prefered web development tool for years) tedious and boring. It is also “unnatural” (although not impossible) to have true separation of logic and presentation in PHP, it is a quirky, messy language.

Since I was already using Python for virtually everything but web development, I decided to give it a try.

The world of web development in python was like a jungle, there was Zope and lots of different little tools with a small user base and little documentation. I decided to give Zope2 a try but it is extremely complex and overdesigned, it felt like Java. Avoid Zope and Java for small/medium web development, it is like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer.

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I am a declared cthulolic, a proud member of the Peruvian Church of Cthulhu, but a couple of months ago I discovered the answer to life the universe and everything.

It all began when the Kansas state board of education decided to allow intelligent design (the theory that a smart being designed the universe, creationism, or in this case, right-wing christianism) in science class along with evolution. It was then when Bobby Henderson sent an open letter to the Kansas board of education, demanding equal time in classrooms to the theories of evolution, intelligent design and Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.

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